Debris mounds rise along Jersey Shore in wake of Sandy

2:50 PM,
Dec. 3, 2012

Heavy equipment operators dump debris in a parking lot in Sea Bright after residents and business owners there clean up after Hurricane Sandy and Winter Storm Athena slammed the Jersey shore in the last two weeks.

Written by

Amanda Oglesby
@OglesbyAPP

The pile of storm debris loomed nearly two stories high in Sea Bright. Cranes worked through the afternoon one Sunday to sort the sodden, moldy refuse.

A month after superstorm Sandy flooded homes along the New Jersey Shore, piles of destroyed appliances and mud-soaked mattresses dot coastal streets. Wood, gypsum wallboard and soaked pink insulation line curbs in many communities. In parking lots, piles of rubble larger than houses are circled by sea gulls. Billions in dollars in material lay rotting and molding in the giant trash piles.

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